Le Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:10:17PM -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > > Succinctly, the copyright file itself is irrelevant in the source > package since the upstream source should have all of that information > already, and at least for the GPL you can distribute source packages > as is. Thus, the issue is reduced to the need for full license texts > only in all binary packages.
Hi all, given that the source and binary packages are considered a single entity -- otherwise we would be violating the GPLs v1 and v2 -- the Debian copyright file is not necessary from a strictly legal point of view. It is therefore a facility to our infrastructure and a service to our users, and it is up to us as a project to decide its contents. One unwritten rule is that it has to contain all the necessary information for the FTP team to review the package. A first step in order to lift the requirement to include a verbatim copy of all licenses that are not distributed in /usr/share/common-licenses would be to ask the FTP team their opinion on that matter. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120512023757.gb29...@falafel.plessy.net
